Grybop's Best of 2014 (-#01 + Recap Video)

Welcome to my 24th year-end chart, the deeply personal chart that promises but never delivers, the only chart that lists any type of songs, from oldies to fresh hits, from unknown homemade recordings to YouTube parodies. The only thing these songs have in common is that I became familiar with them in the past 12 months, ok, maybe 13.

I already know what my #1 is and this year marks the first time a certain oddity occurs - 2014 also marks the return of a certain phenomenon that last occurred in 1999. For now, you can watch my recap video from last year.

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They need rappers like meSo they can get on their ****' keyboards and make me the bad guy, Chun-Li

Well, anyone who's familiar with our very own Forum Song Contest will see many familiar entries here, and not only mine!

Bofore I start, I must make an honourable mention of a song from last year's chart, #12, Tove Lo's Habits, which sort of fell between 2013 and 2014 and got lost in the end - always as far as my year-end charts are concerned.

This year I'll be counting down 30 songs and will prolly make a video covering the top 20. Here are some songs that missed out, in no particular order:

30 Lady Gaga ft. R. Kelly - Do what U wantAn Artpop highlight, the chart career of which reflected what a mess this era was for Gaga. Gaga's was the only concert I attended this year and I had a great time.

29 Lykke Li - No rest for the wickedI won her latest album in a radio competition. Short, somewhat bleak, but nice overall. This was rightfully chosen as the first single.

27 Lana Del Rey - West CoastCoincidence? On April 14, 2014, two videos were uploaded on Youtube. Both were shot on a beach. Both were basically a few seconds of footage on a loop. This was the first one (but a proper video was eventually uploaded a week later). The other one is much higher.

25 Serebro - Я тебя не отдамThis would have naturally ended up in the upper reaches of this chart, the thing was that for some reason I always forgot to download it or re-visit the video (which is a mess), hence the relatively low placing.

24 Xara & Fedotova - Circles (Daniel Cheis remix)A song that's simply inshazammable, probably because it features a set of generic vocals that anyone can purchase through royalty-free music sites. The song has therefore circulated under an abundance of titles and remixers, this here, though, is the best mix of them all IMO. I love chopped up vocals!

23 Taylor Swift - Blank Space- But it's HER! Miss Sour herself, the annoying Taylor Swift! You loathe her!- Shut up!- And the song is a copycat of ten other songs, how can you like this piece of crap?- Shut up, brain, SHUT UP!

22 Mekkas - Without DreamsOne of only two greek entries this year. A nice summery chill-out track that I played to death.

21 Róisín Murphy - Ancora Ancora Ancora (Severino & Nico De Ceglia Remix)Róisín's Mi Senti EP is, for the biggest part of it, a collection of covers of italian classics, most of which I was not familiar with. This one was very nicely remixed and became a small radio hit here. Dunno if this EP alienated her audience, because it went largely ignored I think, with me though it was a completely different story. One more song from the EP is to come much higher.

Grybop wrote:23 Taylor Swift - Blank Space- But it's HER! Miss Sour herself, the annoying Taylor Swift! You loathe her!- Shut up!- And the song is a copycat of ten other songs, how can you like this piece of crap?- Shut up, brain, SHUT UP!

pretty much what I think of myself liking 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! songs form her 1989 album (100% of what I've heard from that LP actually )

A real slow burner, this song took me forever to really enjoy for some reason. Perhaps I hated the fact that the video went viral so quickly and everyone was making the same praising comments over and over. A great song anyhow - funny how she sounds like Rihanna (it's the other way round, yeah, but still...)

First heard this gem when jszmiles picked it as one of his FSC entries last year, and even though I voted it, it wasn't until a radio station picked it up a few months later that I really started to like it. Love everything about it, the sound, the vocals, the lyrics.

My heart has never beaten louderI can't believe that I doubtedI doubted you

I was looking for a certain Tomas Barfod track to enter in FSC, when I bumped into this weird video (vegans will love it), so I changed my mind and went with that instead - such was the impact this song had on me upon first listen! The other song I had in mind will appear later - it's also worthy of note that another collaboration between Tomas and Nina made my top 10 last year.

17 Hudson Taylor - CareFor heaven's sake I have been screaming at you all the timeIt makes no sense how he treats youHow could you miss the signsHe's been cheating on youmessin' with your head

Friend-zoned/forever-alone 3-minute anthem, with such beautiful vocal harmonies that two ears don't seem enough to enjoy them. The official video has somehow disappeared.

Kris Menace's last 2 albums are great pieces of work, and it's just random that this is the first track of his to make my year-end chart. I used it as soundtrack to a video I made with footage from my summer vacation this year, perhaps that's why I loved it even more.

What a transformation! Fabrice Dayan took the original Talisco pop/rock tune from this summer and made something massive that wouldn't sound out of place in 1976 indeed. A feelgood disco number, that somehow echoes Las Vegas in the first half and then takes a 180-degree turn to become an anthem of optimism and free will.

"I'm gonna say I'm gonna be happy till I believe it" seems to be the meaning here. This is the other Tomas Barfod I was talking about at #18, a collaboration with the living half of Charles & Eddie. Quirky video!

I was just checking Benny's chart and remembered I probably should have charted Derniere Danse somewhere, possibly somewhere in the mid-20ies - ah well, I've gotten so bored of it by now, it's not even worth editing my list

They need rappers like meSo they can get on their ****' keyboards and make me the bad guy, Chun-Li